Originally Posted by
Anansis
Good shout on checking the arrivals monitor.
There are many of us who would do the same were the arrivals monitors readily visible to departing passengers, as they typically are in the USA where, even there, paranoia about segregating arriving and departing passengers has not reached UK levels. Unfortunately in the UK the arrivals monitors are often on a separate level, below departures, and you can always only go down to see them before going through security, after which point there are none at all.
Even the "old fashioned" method (looking out of the window at the ramp towards the relevant gate) increasingly doesn't work as airport architects think we all want to spend our time looking at plain walls rather than a view out across the field. BAA probably prefer this approach as well, as they then save on the costs of window cleaners.